Local Commons and Global Interdependence

by Robert Keohane (Editor), Elinor Ostrom (Editor)

Overview

This volume offers a synthesis of what is known about very large and very small common-pool resources. Individuals using commons at the global or local level may find themselves in a similar situation. At an international level, states cannot appeal to authoritative hierarchies to enforce agreements they make to cooperate with one another. In some small-scale settings, participants may be just as helpless in calling on distant public officials to monitor and enforce their agreements. Scholars have independently discovered self-organizing regimes which rely on implicit or explicit principles, norms, rules and procedures rather than the command and control of a central authority.

The contributors discuss the possibilities and

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780803979628
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/01/1995
Edition description:	REPRINT
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis, Indiana University, Bloomington. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2001; is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; and a recipient of the Frank E. Seidman Prize in Political Economy and the Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science. Her books include Governing the Commons: The Evolution of Institutions for Collective Action; Rules, Games, and Common-Pool Resources (with Roy Gardner and James Walker); and Local Commons and Global Interdependence: Heterogeneity and Cooperation in Two Domains (with Robert Keohane).

Table of Contents

Introduction - Robert O Keohane and Elinor Ostrom
PART ONE: THEORETICAL PUZZLES
The Problem of Scale in Human/Environment Relationships - Oran R Young
The Politics of Scope - Duncan Snidal
Endogenous Actors, Heterogeneity and Institutions
Heterogeneity, Linkage and Commons Problems - Lisa L Martin
PART TWO: EVIDENCE FROM THE LABORATORY
Heterogeneities, Information and Conflict Resolution - Steven Hackett, Dean Dudley and James Walker
Experimental Evidence on Sharing Contracts
PART THREE: EVIDENCE FROM THE FIELD
Constituting Social Capital and Collective Action - Elinor Ostrom
The Conditions for Successful Collective Action - Gary D Libecap
Self-interest and Environmental Management - Kenneth A Oye and James H Maxwell
Heterogeneities at Two Levels - Ronald B Mitchell
State, Non-state Actors and Intentional Oil Pollution